Earning Aadvantage Miles on Jet Airways
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2
Earning Aadvantage Miles on Jet Airways
Being a Aadvantage Platinum card holder, I was looking for some advice with regards to Jet Airways. I am going to be travelling from LHR-CCU in July and have the option of either using Jet Airways or British Airways to go to BOM and then get a domestic connecting flight. They are roughly the same price.
Looking at the Jet Flights, they are going to be on class K (international segment) and class T (domestic segment). However I don't see any mention of earning miles on the Aadvantage website on class K, even though Jet Airways is a codeshare partner.
The other option is British Airways, where I will get the Lounge Access and 25% of the miles travelled, which is doubled to 50% by the Platinum bonus.
My platinum status is due for renewal in Feb 2010 and I still have 14,000 miles to go. Although losing status wouldn't be the end of the world, I would be prepared to pay up to Ł100 to buy added miles to get to the required 50,000 miles.
So the question is... who do I fly with? I suppose if Jet gives me nothing, then its British Airways.
Looking at the Jet Flights, they are going to be on class K (international segment) and class T (domestic segment). However I don't see any mention of earning miles on the Aadvantage website on class K, even though Jet Airways is a codeshare partner.
The other option is British Airways, where I will get the Lounge Access and 25% of the miles travelled, which is doubled to 50% by the Platinum bonus.
My platinum status is due for renewal in Feb 2010 and I still have 14,000 miles to go. Although losing status wouldn't be the end of the world, I would be prepared to pay up to Ł100 to buy added miles to get to the required 50,000 miles.
So the question is... who do I fly with? I suppose if Jet gives me nothing, then its British Airways.
#2
Join Date: May 2008
Location: NYC
Programs: DL PM; UA 1K; AA 1MM
Posts: 4,505
Concerning status, you will only get EQM if you fly Jet Airways on an AA flight number.
If you are flying on a Jet Airways flight number, as you noticed, only some fare codes earn miles, but none of those miles will be elite-qualifying, only RDM. K fare on Jet Airways earns no EQM and earns no RDM.
So you would be better off with BA, unless you are looking at an AA flight numbers, which I don't believe exists on Jet LHR-CCU.
If you are flying on a Jet Airways flight number, as you noticed, only some fare codes earn miles, but none of those miles will be elite-qualifying, only RDM. K fare on Jet Airways earns no EQM and earns no RDM.
So you would be better off with BA, unless you are looking at an AA flight numbers, which I don't believe exists on Jet LHR-CCU.
#3
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Little dot in Asia
Programs: AA-EP, TK-*G, HL-DM, HY-GLO, MR-LTP
Posts: 25,932
And on Jet Airways codeshared flights, you can only book on the AA flight numbers if you are connecting in from an AA flight.
#4
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: DCA
Programs: AA EXP, BA Silver, UA 1P, Marriott Platinum, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Platinum
Posts: 201
Jet doesn't fly CCU-LHR, so either way you would have to connect domestically.